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Black background with scattered green dots and repeated white text 'Nicole' in a pattern, one gray rectangle visible on the right edge

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Black background with scattered green dots and repeated white text 'Nicole' in a pattern, one gray rectangle visible on the right edge

Black background with scattered green dots and repeated white text 'Nicole' in a pattern, one gray rectangle visible on the right edge. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four- of text
  • scattered green dots on black background
  • solid gray shape in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background populated by small green dots. White text reading "Nicole" appears repeatedly across the frame in a four-column grid layout; three full rows of text are fully visible with partial fourth-row elements. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner, extending from the right edge to approximately two-thirds of the image's width and covering about one-quarter of its height. The green dots vary slightly in position across different sections but maintain consistent size and color.

Description

  • Black background with scattered green dots and repeated white text 'Nicole' in a pattern, one gray rectangle visible on the right edge

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081218133245390918271
  • FranksIcons
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Named Entities

  • Nicole

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background green dots Nicole text
  • Nicole repeated four- gray rectangle
  • green dots scattered black background white text
  • text Nicole gray shape bottom right

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered green dots and repeated white text 'Nicole' in a grid pattern, one gray rectangle visible on the right edge.
  • quarantined wordwall: three full rows visible
  • quarantined wordwall: four-column grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: four-column grid of text
  • quarantined retrieval: text Nicole grid layout gray shape bottom right
  • quarantined retrieval: Nicole repeated four-column gray rectangle
  • quarantined retrieval: black background green dots Nicole text grid

Visible Text

  • Nicole

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nicole (text)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • green dots scattered
  • white text 'Nicole'
  • four
  • three full visible
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081218133245390918271
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e2/e2150082f2ec0ee4c9b3eeb3e62f41e70611bbcc4a00f5f46da7db054e31913b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
e2150082f2ec0ee4
SHA-256
e2150082f2ec0ee4c9b3eeb3e62f41e70611bbcc4a00f5f46da7db054e31913b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.064925

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with scattered green dots and repeated white text 'Nicole' in a pattern, one gray rectangle visible on the right edge

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,961 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,121, response 712

Review tags

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Colors

  • black
  • green
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • four- of text
  • scattered green dots on black background
  • solid gray shape in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background populated by small green dots. White text reading "Nicole" appears repeatedly across the frame in a four-column grid layout; three full rows of text are fully visible with partial fourth-row elements. A solid light gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner, extending from the right edge to approximately two-thirds of the image's width and covering about one-quarter of its height. The green dots vary slightly in position across different sections but maintain consistent size and color.

Description

  • Black background with scattered green dots and repeated white text 'Nicole' in a pattern, one gray rectangle visible on the right edge

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081218133245390918271
  • FranksIcons
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Named Entities

  • Nicole

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  • Nicole repeated four- gray rectangle
  • green dots scattered black background white text
  • text Nicole gray shape bottom right

Objects

  • green dots
  • gray rectangle

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  • quarantined style: grid composition
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Style

  • pixelated text
  • composition
  • minimalist design

Subjects

  • text 'Nicole' repeated

Visible Text

  • Nicole

Visually Supported Entities

  • Nicole (text)

Wordwall

  • black background
  • green dots scattered
  • white text 'Nicole'
  • four
  • three full visible
  • gray rectangle bottom-right
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20081218133245390918271
Archive entry
20081218133245390918271.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081218133245390918271.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081218133245390918271.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016